I need to vent about Windows. I want workplaces to use Linux.
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Depends on the settings your IT has set up... Mine will let you put it off, but after a couple times you're left with no choice but to let it run.
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What year is it? Terminal is pretty much optional these days, especially if we're talking enterprise with dedicated IT staff.
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Directories routinely take mulitple seconds to load, and I don’t understand why.
Probably thumbnail generation, and I was going to say file indexing, but surely that runs in the background. Baloo in KDE is a lot less intrusive anyway.
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Windows also used to show me the ugly face of Trump in the start menu even if I didn't ask for it. That was more than 4 years ago. Recently was accidentally hovering over some 'copilot' button in Edge of a friend. And again - pop-up with Trump.
So yes: fuck Windows, fuck Microsoft -
What year is it?
That's a great question
Terminal is pretty much optional these days
LOL good one
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I'm sure it depends on what you need it for, but I've never used my work laptop for anything that would have ever needed a terminal.
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I work in a higher ed org that uses a mix of (mostly) Red Hat servers and Windows & Mac endpoints; the Linux-focused admins use Ansible for things I’d do with either GPOs (if it’s something tried & true) or Intune (if it’s some half-baked newness and campus IT would actually give my group the permissions) in Windows.
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but after a couple times you're left with no choice but to let it run.
That would be an user issue then. If I have an update I'll try to do it asap, if I can't then end of my shift.
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Users don't even know how they organize their files, the difference between sharepoint, teams or onedrive. Of course they can't use a terminal but they would never need to.
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Then come up with a better alternative to office 365.
Windows isn't keeping Microsoft around. Its their office software.
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luckily i can wipe my work laptop and install linux (for now, there are discussions about not letting unmanaged devices on the network at some point...), but what annoys me is seeing how much tax money we send straight to microsoft. i work in the education sector in europe and the majority of the company's funds comes from the government, to send millions of that straight to the US, especially with the politics going on right now, seems like a horrible idea. and SO many others are doing the same thing, i swear if we invested just 10% of it into FOSS the world would be a better place already and we'd all save money.
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And there is probably no simple way to set up a system that would function in a way that Linux needs I guess?
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They have the management aspect of large environments down to a tee. Apart from costs it does not really matter if your domain consists of ten, thousand or more systems. The tools to manage those systems centralized by core systems is the same set for all sizes so to speak.
That can be on one campus, across multiple cities and locations. It’s quite frankly IMO the foundation on which the success of Windows in the corporate world is built. Standardized deployment of settings across all company systems saves administrators time which can be used for other tasks instead of micromanaging clients.
I have yet to see a similar solution for Linux clients that works the same way.
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I've been pretty lucky that I've been able to use Linux on my work laptop the past 3 jobs in a row. It really helps that we use Linux production in and when I tell them that I haven't used Windows in nearly a decade, they're usually willing to let me work with Linux.
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Wow, that is some nightmare fuel type shit. That's actually crazy.
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I was going to say file indexing, but surely that runs in the background.
Assuming indexing is enables, yes.
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why even work from home.
The freedom of not wearing pants at your desk
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This. If updates are SO important, then Windows can do it while it's shutting down.
